independence

With a world in flames, working class action for change essential

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Both literally and metaphorically, the world is in flames, with fires largely lit by human greed, inspired by the market madness of neoliberalism. Real conflagrations in the ...

On Brexit, a general election and Scottish independence

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · It looks like Britain will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal after all. In order to ‘trump’ his Parliamentary opponents and their ‘No ...

In a world of spin, the facts will set you free

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · The cheering which met the supposedly stunning defeat of the SNP leadership on a Scottish currency had barely died down when the party’s legendary spin machine went into ...

SSP indy call: back real change

May 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Last weekend’s SNP Conference voted to endorse the Sustainable Growth Commission’s case for independence. Or did it? For whilst the media focused on ...

Catalan movement struggles for united strategy against the Spanish state

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • “General strike!”, “General strike!”, “General strike!”: in protests across the whole of Catalonia after the March 23 jailing of five MPs and the March ...

Battle lines in the December 21 Catalan election

November 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • The December 21 election in Catalonia, called by Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, will be a plebiscite on his government’s October 27 sacking of the ...

The coup against Catalonia: what resistance strategy?

November 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Everyone had been expecting a war of position: the Spanish state would behead the Catalan government, sack its senior executives, purge the Catalan police, public ...

Catalonia’s referendum: a triumph for democracy built on people’s power

October 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Is it possible to have a successful referendum when your country is effectively occupied by 10,000 police and paramilitaries with orders to stop it? The holding of ...

Democracy: the people’s weapon elites fear

October 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • That one image of a heavily armoured baton wielding Spanish riot cop attacking Catalan voters tells us more about the fragile nature of democracy than a thousand weighty books. In ...

Brexit battles smokescreen as Tory hard right show teeth

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • The conventional media wisdom that the British state is in confusion post the Brexit vote is a best lazy thinking and in some respects dangerous nonsense. The Tory right is firmly ...